 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1904 - 328 oldal
...variety of actions which men are liable to commit no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared to be felonies without benefit of clergy, or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.' " — Austin Dobson, Parchment Edition of "The Vicar of Wakefield." L. 10. perquisite. "Gaols were... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - 1904 - 186 oldal
...liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty were declared by Act of Parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy; or in other words, to be worthy of instant death. Of minor offenders, some suffered forfeiture of their lands or goods, others were banished or subjected... | |
 | Richard Davey - 1906 - 718 oldal
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy;...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." Misdemeanours which are now punished by a day or two's imprisonment, or a fine, were then hanging matters.... | |
 | John Henry Overton, Frederic Relton - 1906 - 448 oldal
...Observations on a late Publication intituled " Thoughts upon Executive Justice," "have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." These crimes, moreover, were not even scientifically regarded. To pick a pocket of only twelve pence... | |
 | William Richard Wood Stephens, William Hunt - 1906 - 404 oldal
...Observations on a late Publication intituled " Thoughts upon Executive Justice" " have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." These crimes, moreover, were not even scientifically regarded. To pick a pocket of only twelve pence... | |
 | Charles Shirley Potts - 1910 - 644 oldal
...which men are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonies, without benefit of clergy,...or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death." The hangman, the headsman, the rack, the stake, the Inquisition, and the guillotine were in ceaseless... | |
 | 1910 - 548 oldal
...are daily liable to commit, no less than one hundred and sixty, declared by Act of Parliament to be without benefit of clergy; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death;" — many of which offenses are, in England, now punished, if at all, only by fine or imprisonment.... | |
 | V. K. Wellington Koo - 1912 - 372 oldal
...to commit, no less than an hundred and sixty have been declared by act of parliament to be felonious without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death."* Within these 160 capital offences were included such acts as the appearance of persons armed or with... | |
 | Voltairine De Cleyre - 1914 - 492 oldal
...commit, no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by act of Parliament to be felonies . . . worthy of instant death. So dreadful a list instead...of diminishing increases the number of offenders." Robert Ingersoll, speaking on "Crimes Against Criminals" before the New York Bar Association, a lawyer... | |
 | Samuel Parkes Cadman - 1916 - 634 oldal
...actions which men are daily liable to commit no less than one hundred and sixty have been declared by Act of Parliament to be felonies without benefit of clergy;...or in other words, to be worthy of instant death." Yet, undeterred by this Draconian severity, crime was outrageous and incessant ; the jails were filled... | |
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It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of... 
